Display rack



W. ECKERT DISPLAY RACK Oct. 19 1926.

Filed Jan.

Patented Oct. 19, 1926.

f U NITED STAT-'ES WALTER-ECKERT, OF OSGOOD, INDIANA..

. DISPLAY RACK.

Application filed January G, 1925.

My invention is a display rack designed especially for thedisplay Iof sample doors, whether the doors be screen doors or doors of any other type. The object of .the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and compact device by the use of which a plurality Ior' doors may be supported in upright position within a small space so that they may be readily examined by prospective cus tomers Without one door interfering with an inspection of ianother door `although the doors will be arranged close together. The invention `seeks to provide a door displaying rack in which the sample doors Vmay be easily secured in the rack and the rack may be readily adjusted to the size ot the door. The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing and will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a side elevation of one/enr bodiment of my invention with a screen' door mounted therein;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a post or standard 1 which will ordinarily be yof a height to accommodate standard doors of maximum height. This standard is illustrated as a wooden bar or timber, but it will be understood that the standard may be constructed of channel iron or other material. I also provide a substantially triangular base plate 2 and a similar cap plate 3 which are secured to the bottom and top ends of the post, respectively. The plates 2 and 3 are notched or recessed at their apexes so as to iit around the post and they are rigidly connected with the post by angle brackets 4 secured to the sides of the post and to the top of the base plate 2 and the under side of the cap plate 3. It so desired, screws, indicated at 5, may be also inserted through the post into the edge of the base and cap plates so as to further secure the parts together. The brackets l supporting the cap plate may obviously be set at any desired point of the post or standard below the extreme upper end ot the latter, and the device may thus be easily adjusted to the height of the doors to be displayed. The rack is, of course, supplied in a number of standard sizes but it may sometimes happen that the only racks available are longer than the doors intended to be displayed therein, and by adjusting the Serial No.` 912.

cap plate vertically the delay of waiting for a smaller size rack is avoided. A plurality of pins 6v are secured in the base plate 2 adjacent and parallel with the basal edge of the same, and these pins project above the base plate a suflicient distance to serve as pivots Jfor the doors, indicated at 7 ,1 to be displayed. The pins will be spaced .apart-equidistantly and at such intervalsthat the doors may swing reelyand any onedoor may be left projecting from the rack, `as shownlin Fig.' 2, while'zthe other idoors maybe swung aside so as to toldclose to `each other and to the rack. The customer. is thus enabled to inspect anyone door or all the doors' as com" pletely as though only one door` 'was displayed. Sockets, suchy as indicated at 8,'are ormedfinzthe upper and lower ends-ot the v.doors to be fitted' in the racks and the socket `1n the lowerendof the'do'or is,.ofxcourse,en-

gaged pivotally lover the upper :projecting end ot a pin '.6. A plurality of count-ersunlr openings 9 vareltormed through they cap plate 8 adjacent the basal edge thereof and parallel with said edge and also alined vertically with the respective pins 6. Headed pins l() are engaged in these countersunlr openings 9 to engage the respectively subjacent sockets 8 in the upper ends of the displayed doors, it being readily noted that the heads of the pins will engage within the countersink of the openings so as to prevent the pins dropping entirely through the openings and also preventing their loss when a door is not engaged thereby. The countersink of the several openings 9 will be of such depth that the head of the pin engaged therein will be flush with or below the top surface of the cap plate, and a latch bar l1 is pivoted between its ends, as indicated at 12, upon the cap plate in such position that it may extend over the heads of all the Y ins 10 and thereby prevent them being acci entally pushed upward and releasing a door. It the latch bar be turned to a position parallel with the basal edge of the triangular cap plate, as indicated by full lines in Fig. 2, it will obviously extend over the headsot all the pins 10 and over the openings receiving said pins. It the latch bar be swung pivotally to the position shown in dotted lines, the pins will obviously be exposed and any pin may be withdrawn so as to release a door held thereby. In placing a door in the rack, the door may be rst engaged over the lower pin 6 and then easily brought into position under rious handling of the same by the salesman. y

The device may be set up at such point in a storeroom as will prove mostconvenient, and a bracket 13 is secured upon one side of the post to facilitate the attachment of the rack to a counter or to a wall so that it will be held firmly in its upright position. This bracket 13 may be of any desired or approved form.

Having thus described the invention, l claim: l

l. A display rack comprising a support, upper and lower members projectedlaterally from the support in the same direction in parallel relation, the upper member having a plurality of openings extending` vertically therethrough, pivots secured to and projecting vertically from the lower member and disposed in coincident position with the respective vertical openings 'of the upper mem- "i ber, and pivots removably fitted in the openings of the upper member and acting jointly with the lower pivots to engage sockets in the upper and lower edges of the articles to be displayed.

2. A display rack for doors and like articles having socekts in their upper and lower edges, the same consisting of a post, upper and lower members projected laterally from the post in the same direction, the

upper member having a plurality of openings extending vertically therethrough, pivots projected upwardly from the lower member in coincident position with the openings of the upper member, headed pivots removably fitted in the openings of the upper member and acting jointly with the lower pivots to pivotally and detacliably support the articles to be displayed by engaging the sockets in the edges thereof.

3. A display ,rack for sockets in their upper and lower edges, the samecomprising a post, a cap and base plates secured to the post and having vertical openings in coincident position, pivots secured in the openings of the base plate and extended upwardly therefrom, headed pivots re movably fitted in the openings of the cap plate and depending therefrom, and a latch on the cap plate to extend over the removable .pivots and prevent displacement thereof.

ln testimony whereof l ny signature.

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